Principal Software Engineer - Facial Authentication

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. 

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Why Account Authentication?

The account authentication team is the front door of the metaverse. We sign users up for Roblox on all platforms and subsequently re-authenticating those users when they want to use Roblox after they log out or move to a new device. When we do our job well, Roblox users will have a seamless experience regardless of whether they are using a PC, Android phone, or iOS tablet.

As a Principal Engineer on Roblox's Account Authentication team, you will specifically provide technical leadership on our team's efforts to bootstrap biometric user authentication at Roblox. This is a greenfield project marked by risk, ambiguity and incredible possibilities for high profile impact.

After joining us, you will report to the Senior Manager of the Account Authentication team.

You Are:

  • A Technical Leader: You have guided challenging Facial Authentication/Computer Vision/ML solutions from inception to launch.
  • Influential: You leverage your technical strengths to be an active participant in iterating on product direction. We will lean on you to tell us what is and is not possible.
  • User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution.
  • Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.
  • Proactive: You can speak in detail about problems that you identified and solutions that you drove to launch.
  • Conscientious: You make sure that all the little things get done before you push code to production. You don't consider a project done if it doesn't have tests, dashboards, playbooks, communications to partner teams, and alerts.

You Will:

  • Build a cross platform biometric auth experience for Roblox users. We want to register users on their phones and later authenticate them on their browser.
  • Work cross organizationally. We collaborate with teams and roles throughout Roblox and get a big picture view of how Roblox works.

You Have:

  • 7+ years of experience in software development.
  • 4+ years of experience building Computer vision projects.
  • 4+ years of experience working on multi-person codebases, including open-source or personal projects

You might have:

  • BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, or other technical field
  • Familiarity with C#, Python or Go.
For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.  All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Annual Salary Range
$283,780—$331,640 USD

You’ll Love: 

  • Industry-leading compensation package
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • A rewarding 401k program
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy 
  • Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
  • At Roblox HQ: 
    • Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
    • Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
    • Annual CalTrain Go Pass

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.